'ZEUXINE. ] ORCH1DACEM. 219 



Stem 10-30 in. in length, very leafy below, glabrous, loosely enveloped 

 by the wide leaf-sheaths. Leaves many, long-petioled ; blade 4-8 in. 

 long, elliptic or ovate-elliptic, tapering at each end.| acute or acumi- 

 nate ; petiole stout, 1J-3 in. long. Peduncle bearing many lanceo- 

 late acuminate bracts which are hairy above and glabrous beneath. 

 Spike, 3-8 in. long, many-and densely fld.; rhachis pubescent. 

 Flowers minute, subglobose, white tinged with green ; fl. bract as 

 -long as ovary, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, pubescent on the margin. 

 Sepal glabrous, subequal, broadly ovate, obtuse. Petals clawed, 

 cuneately obovate. Lip longer than sepals, with a large saccate 

 base, its apex decurved, triangular, entire ; interior of basal sac with 

 two rows of long setse on the sides and an oblong callus at the apex 

 of each row. Column very short, with a transverse depression below 

 the broad anticous stigma. Anther pyriform, obtuse. Pollinia clavate- 

 cylindric, eessile on a small oblong gland. 



J)ehra Dun (Mackinnon) ; N. Oudh in the Bahraich district (Duthie) 

 Flowers in May. DISTRIB. : Outer Himalayan ranges of Garhwal 

 and Kumaon, up to 3,000 ft., and eastwards to Sikkim and Bhutan ; 

 also in Assam and on the Khasia and Naga Hills ; found also in Bengal, 

 the C. Prov. and S. India, extending to China, Hongkong and Java. 



24. ZEUXINE, Lindl. ; Fl. Brit. Ind. vi, 106. 

 Terrestrial herbs with succulent glabrous stems. Leaves mem- 

 branous, sometimes withering at the time of flowering. Flowers 

 small, in racemes or spikes. Sepals subequal; lateral pair free, 

 the dorsal one concave. Petals like the dorsal sepal, and with it 

 forming a hood to the column. Lip adnate to base of column, 

 cymbiform or saccate at the base; apical lobe shortly -clawed 

 or sessile, divided into two subquadrate more or less truncate 

 diverging lobules, or entire, or with narrow decurved lobules, the 

 basal sac with calli or laminse within. Column very short, its 

 anterior face with lamellar or conical processes ; stigmas 2, lateral, 

 distinct. Anther membranous, sometimes ridged, the cells conti- 

 guous ; pollinia pyriform, attached by an oblong gland to the 

 erect rostellum. Species about 30, in Trop. Asia and in Trop. 

 and S. Africa. 



Z. sulcata, Lindl. Gen. and Sp. Orch. 485 ; Royle, 111. 368 ; 

 F. J3. I. vi, 106 ; Watt E. D. ; K. & P. Ann. R. Bot. Gard. Calc. viii, 

 286, t. 381 ; Duthie id, ix, part 2, 168 ; Pram Beng. PL 1029 ; Oooke 

 Fl. Bomb, ii, 708. Pterygotiium suicatum, Roxb. Fl. Ind. iii 9 452, 



